DR. BAWUMIA PRESENTS RELIEF ITEMS, CASH TO FLOOD VICTIMS 10th Sept., 2020

 Ghana’s Vice President, H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has presented assorted relief items and cash of 10,000.00 Ghana Cedis to some three households comprising 48 victims of floods in Anateem, a suburb of the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region. The items included mattresses, mats, several bales of clothing, soap, blankets and food items among others.

The relief items as displayed at Anateem
The Upper East Region is known to have several flood-prone communities while the annual spillage of the Bagre Dam in upstream Burkina Faso, often makes the situation worse. With the rains in the area reaching their peak few days ago, a few unlucky families in the Anateem area and elsewhere, have been badly hit by the floods.

Having learnt of the dire situation therefore, Dr. Bawumia decided to come in and to see for himself, the level of havoc caused by these floods and to lend a helping hand to those affected. He assured the affected families at a brief gathering in Anateem that, government would not abandon them in their times of need and hoped the items donated will help mitigate their plight while the authorities will use the cash to cater for their other immediate and pressing needs.

The Vice President noted that during floods, irreparable destruction is often caused to property while lives are lost in other instances and stated that, the government’s huge investment in the Pwalugu multipurpose dam project, which is about the first most heavily-financed project Northern Ghana, will greatly help in finding permanent solutions to the floods that hit the region each rainy season.

Information sourced from staff of the region’s National Disaster Management Organisation [NADMO] indicated that, the displaced persons had been putting up at the Anateem Primary School and at a near-by uncompleted fuel station.

Meanwhile earlier in the day, Dr. Bawumia in the company of the Upper East Regional Minister - Madam Tangoba Abayage, the Interior Minister - Mr. Ambrose Dery and other state officials, drove from Bolgatanga to the Kobore bridge; the point where the unrelenting flood waters had totally cut off the Bolgatanga-Bawku road making it impossible for passengers and vehicles to move from one end to the other. Several haulage trucks carting consumables and other commodities to the Bawku area as well as those traveling to neighbouring Togo and Burkina Faso, have since been grounded as a consequence.

The washed-off Kobore bridge
Speaking on site, the Veep said government and the Ghana Highways Authority were closely monitoring the situation and will immediately move in to reconstruct the bridge and the damaged portion of the road, the moment the floods recede. He observed that, the flood waters would not have been this catastrophic but for the spillage of Burkina Faso’s Bagre Dam which he revealed was spilling up to 29 million gallons per minute. But he emphasised that “to deal with this problem fundamentally, we ought to have a flood control plan in the context of the Pwalugu multipurpose dam project.” He added that the contractors for the project numbering up to three, had moved to site and done some clearing shortly after which, the rains and floods set in stalling work but gave the assurance that, they shall return to site the moment everything returns to normal.

He expressed government’s condolences to families of 10 persons who lost their lives in the floods in both the Upper East and North East Regions and pledged that after NADMO completes a comprehensive assessment of the destruction caused to farms, livestock and loss of lives, government would roll an appropriate compensation programme to assist citizens affected. 

 

Tone Irrigation Dam Spillway

Dr. Bawumia and his entourage also stopped at the Tono Irrigation Dam [a place he already visited in October 2019] in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality and inspected ongoing reconstruction works at the dam’s spillway which got badly damaged in the 2019 torrential rains. On his way back to Bolgatanga, he made a whistle stop on the Navrongo-Naga road and inspected ongoing works.

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE POLICE WON'T CONSIDER FAMILY TIES & FRIENDSHIPS IN APPLYING LAW DURING ELECTIONS 21st NOV., 2024

Image
The Paga District Police Commander, ASP Mr. Ziaullah Khalil Ibrahim has assured citizens in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region and voters in the Chiana-Paga Constituency that, the Police will apply the law firmly and fairly during and after the country’s 2024 general elections. He gave the assurance this Thursday afternoon whilst addressing a meeting with political party youths in Paga and stressed that; “we the Police will not consider family ties and friendships while dealing with all election-related issues”.   ASP Khalil Making His Presentation The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) with funding from the European Union (EU), convened the meeting as part of efforts to ensure peaceful and violence-free elections. This also falls under the bigger EU sponsored programme named; Preventing and Containing Violent Extremism (PCVE).   ASP Khalil noted that though the Chiana-Paga constituency has some worrying numbers of known hot-spots, the d...
Read more

MoGCSP & ISD TRAIN ISD OFFICERS FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ON SWCES 15th FEBRUARY, 2024

Image
A day’s training workshop for the roll out of a pending nation-wide public education and sensitization campaign on the Single Window Citizens Engagement Service [SWCES], has taken place in Tamale, the Northern Regional capital, this Thursday, February 15, 2024. The training workshop was organized by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection [MoGCSP] in collaboration with the Information Services Department [ISD]. Group Picture; Participants & Trainers   Some eight Regional Information Officers and their respective metropolitan, municipal as well as district information officers, were the main participants in the training as these officers are the professionals clothed with the requisite skills and ground experience to execute the public education and sensitization campaign on the SWCES in the coming weeks. The said ISD officers were drawn from the Upper East, the Ahafo, Bono and Bono East Regions. The rest came from the Northern Region, Upper West, Savannah and Nor...
Read more

NCCE EDUCATES WOMEN ON RULE OF LAW & ANTICORRUPTION FIGHT 15th OCTOBER, 2025

Image
Over 50 women from various women’s groups, religious bodies, Persons Living with Disabilities and some minority tribes in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region, have been educated on the principles of rule of law and Ghana’s anti-corruption campaign. The one-day education forum held in Paga, the district’s capital, was on the theme “Civic Engagements on the Rule of Law and the Fight Against corruption”. The National Commission for Civic Education [NCCE] is the main implementing agency for these targeted educational campaigns for women’s groups in 60 districts across the 16 regions of Ghana. This activity is an initiative under the mother-project known as the Participation, Accountability and Integrity for a Resilient Democracy [PAIReD] which is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development [BMZ]. The project is co-financed by the European Union [EU] and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs [SECO] and with support...
Read more